Answer:During détente the US and USSR were able to stay out of conflicts between smaller nations, but before and after
this period they were not. Conflicts like the Korean War and Vietnam War before détente demonstrated how
entangled the superpowers could get. During détente, acts like the signing of the Helsinki Final Act which finalized the
borders in Europe suggested that the Americans and Soviets would stop proxy wars, at least in Europe, but the
Soviet-Afghan War showed this was not the case in other parts of the world. That conflict ended détente, increasing
tensions in the Cold War
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